Quotes

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.